Disorientation

Disorientation is a party thrown at one of the cooler off-campus houses occupied by upperclassmen for the primary purpose of getting freshmen drunk. It is a welcoming to all incoming freshman at the end of their orientation, and several are typically held somewhere around campus every year.

In a legendary disorientation party at Banana House in 2001 every freshman face was cut out of the facebook and attached to a 40. Thus, each freshman in attendance could find her own beverage as she found her Oberlin identity. There was also a flaming mud-wrestling pit filled with gasoline. And a gigantic pinata of a baby.

It should be noted that the party ended in police action and a handgun being drawn. Let's hope the tradition is still alive.

[edit] Advice

• Some parties have ended in noise complaints followed by a mass exodus of upperclassmen, who left freshman to deal with Safety and Security or the cops.
• The jungle juice is pretty potent stuff.